The inner is as equally created by God as the outer—the inner that
allows, discerns, opens, accepts, builds relationship and creative outflow and
holds memory, the place where past, present and future meet in constant dynamic
chaos, undershot with a deep river of silence and poise. Much of the Gospel of
Thomas reflects this movement of the awareness and care of inner selves,
particularly this ephemeral thing that we call our consciousness in all its
hues and textures, even as it gently shows us how much time we actually put
into caring for the ultimately unreal masks, the form, the persona.

Reigning is about learning the language of the empty cup—being
able to use its poetic interior language of allowing, accepting, holding or
containing, structuring, nurturing, in a way that frames our relationships and
makes them the very stuff of holiness.

Ameyn.

Hokmah’s Symphonic Note:

When
the scriptural philosopher dissects words and thoughts with the scalpel of his
reason, he may grow so fond of theoretical knowledge and of mentally separating
wisdom into various segments that he may "dry up" through lack of the
experience of truth in divine ecstasy. If a person spent his lifetime in
analyzing the properties of water and in examining water from different sources
all over the world, he would not thereby quench his thirst. A thirsty man,
without fussing over the atomic constituencies, selects some good water;
drinking it, he becomes satisfied. An exoteric jnana yogi—a follower of the
path of discriminative reason—may read and analyze all the scriptures and still
not slake his soul thirst.

--Yogananda

God is
the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your
tongue, and the love behind your love. To realize this to the fullest extent is
Self-realization. Without God's power you can do nothing.

--Yogananda

Practicing Unity:

Create for yourself a list of the attributes of the empty
cup. What do your words tell you about
reigning?

Hokmah’s Gnosis:

We reign when we
embody the qualities of the empty cup, clean within and without,

so that we might be
of the greatest use.

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